How the microbiome challenges our concept of self

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About the Authors

Tobias Rees

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Rees, Thomas Bosch, Angela E. Douglas

Affiliation Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Thomas Bosch

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Rees, Thomas Bosch, Angela E. Douglas

Affiliation Zoological Institute and Interdisciplinary Research Center Kiel Life Science, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Angela E. Douglas

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Rees, Thomas Bosch, Angela E. Douglas

Affiliation Department of Entomology & Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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